Havard Law to Help Legalize Weed

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Source: collegeotr.com

When most people get caught smoking bud (marijuana) they usually follow a set step procedure:

1. They get angry because the cops just took away their weed.
2. They angrier because they realize that they’re going to have to pay a huge fine.
3. And they get even more angry because they can’t understand why smoking responsibly should be illegal.

Then they bite their lip and pay the fines.

After getting busted with possession by an undercover police officer Richard Cusick and R. Keith Stroup followed the first three steps but refused to lay down to the law. They have now turned to Harvard Law School professor, Charles R Nesson, for guidance. They will make the argument that the outlawing of marijuana has no “rational basis.”

I have to say that I’m on Cusick’s and Stroup’s side. I really don’t see what the big deal is with smoking a little joint (or blunt). It’s understandable that weed, when smoked improperly (i.e. when driving) can be somewhat dangerous. But what can be said about alcohol?

Weed can make you lazy and destroy a person’s ambitions, but this effect only last so long as the persons high. The smokes not good for you, but I can’t imagine it’s any worse than what the cigarette smoker endures each day. So what’s wrong with smoking weed?

I’m guessing there’s three reasons why M.J.’s illegal. First, the government didn’t move quickly enough to regulate the growth and sale of it. Second, there’s no quick equivalent to the breathalyzer for weed; three, those making the laws have never tried it, and if they have they saw something in themselves that they didn’t like.

Whatever the reason, the criminalization of the drug seems unjust… Luckily there are people like Cusick and Stroup fighting for the cause.

Why ganja should be legalised

Yes, so it was BNN who said they're thinking about legalizing cannabis.
Finally, a reasonable thought.

How come people dont get it?

what is the different between getting high or getting drunk?
as far as i see it, alcohol and also cigarettes are by far deadlier than cannabis.

i mean, its true we're surely stoned if we smoke pot.
well thats why we smoke it right? duh!
but, when we're high, we're happy.
whats wrong with being happy?

so lets try to analise a lil bout ganja..

first of all, this so called drugs (as people know it, which is wrong!) seen as a dangerous narcotics cos it makes u high.
but is getting high is wrong?
u see, the reason for something or anything to be called wrong or sinful is the effect.
and pot doesnt have any dangerous effect, to our body - or to our soul and mind.

so the big question is, why the hell indonesian gov. classifies ganja on first rank most dangerous drugs?? dont u think thats silly?

u dont get violent from smoking ganja. ull get peaceful.
and it doesnt get u cancer like if ur smoking tobacco. its not poisonous like alcohol.
but the two destructive items are legal, and yet ganja is a first class narcotic.

there has been so many research on cannabis.
most of them are proven facts about the use of cannabis for medical treatment.

and you can search the internet to find out millions of facts that marijuana is not dangerous, and most of all it shouldn't be illegal !!!

its better to get high than to be judgmental !

BNN KAJI LEGALKAN GANJA

Diambil dari situs detik.com : 31 may 2007

Jakarta - Selama ini ganja dikenal sebagai zat

adiktif. Yang ketahuan dan menyimpan barang haram itu pun akan masuk

penjara. Namun kali ini, Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN) dan Indonesia

National Institute on Drug Abuse (INIDA) mencoba mengkaji untuk

melegalkan ganja.

"Selama ini yang dikedepankan selalu sisi negatif ganja. Padahal ganja

juga mempunyai manfaat," ujar Konsultan Ahli BNN dan Direktur

Pengembangan dan riset INIDA Tomi Harjatno di Kantor BNN, Jl MT

Haryono, Jakarta Timur, Kamis (31/5/2007).

Tomi menjelaskan, sejak dahulu hingga saat ini masyarakat Aceh

menggunakan ganja untuk bumbu masak. Selain itu, di negara lain seperti

Belanda, ganja sudah dilegalkan untuk dihisap di kafe dan coffee shop.

Ganja di Belanda masuk dalam tingkat obat ke-4 yang artinya tingkat

ringan. Tidak seperti di Indonesia yang masuk ke tingkat satu,

setingkat dengan heroin dan kokain.

"Ada nilai positif dari daun dan batang ganja, seperti untuk membuat

tas dan lainnya. Kalau daunnya memang bisa menimbulkan efek

halusinogen. Tapi itu tidak sampai membuat efek negatif yang besar,"

jelas Tomi.

Tomi menambahkan, efek dari ganja sebenarnya tidak sebahaya yang diperkirakan orang.

"Kita akan minta policy agar dikaji ulang lebih cermat. Nanti bisa juga pemakaiannya dilokalisir di tempat tertentu," harap Tomi.

Lebih lanjut, menurut Tomi, informasi selama ini mengenai ganja selalu

tercitrakan negatif. Karena itu melalui seminar yang akan digelar 2

Juni mendatang di Jakarta, khusus mengkaji mengenai kebijakan di

berbagai negara yang kontroversial tentang narkoba.

"Dalam seminar itu akan dibentuk tim untuk mengkaji dan merumuskan

kebijakan dan saran yang akan diberikan kepada pemerintah," pungkas

Tomi.